Interfaith relations

In the State of Israel, the unique family law derives from ancient Jewish law, halakhic traditions, and an extensive legal tradition spanning many centuries and geographic locations.

Religion and the Philosophy of Life considers how religion as the source of civilization transforms the fundamental bio-sociology of humans through language and the somatic exploration of religious ritual and prayer.

At first sight the lives of hermits, living in solitude and committed to a life of prayer and contemplation seems to be a world apart of the active practice of interfaith dialogue.

Christian-Muslim dialogue grows increasingly important, but little is known about individual Muslim dialogical thinkers.

This text offers an approach to understanding religious interaction in the fourth century AD.

Das umfassende Lehrbuch ist in zwei Teile gegliedert.

This comprehensive volume brings together a distinguished editorial team, including some of the field s pioneers, to explore the aims, practice, and historical context of interfaith collaboration.

New challenges that emerged in the postwar era have given rise to ongoing debate about the place of religion in public life, in the United States and in other established democracies, and this debate has dramatically reshaped the way scholars, policymakers, and religious leaders think about political theology.

Surveying the period from the rise of Islam in the early seventh century to the present day, Just Wars, Holy Wars, and Jihads is the first book to investigate in depth the historical interaction among Jewish, Christian, and Muslim ideas about when the use of force is justified.

The mid-seventeenth century saw both the expansion of the Baptist sect and the rise and growth of Quakerism.

Drawing on insights from the training practices of the English medieval craft guilds, a global survey of 500 church planters, interviews with artists and church planting trainers and the authors 30 years of ministry experience, 'The Craft of Church Planting' offers a distinctive and imaginative perspective on the methods used to train future practitioners in the art of church planting.

Israel and the Nations: The Bible, The Rabbis, and Jewish-Gentile Relations explores the Jewish theology and law (Halakhah) relating to non-Jews.

Many observers greeted the Second Vatican Council (1962-65) as the most important religious event in the twentieth century.

Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are considered kindred religions-holding ancestral heritages and monotheistic belief in common-but there are definitive distinctions between these "e;Abrahamic"e; peoples.

Einer der bedeutendsten Vertreter des interreligiösen Dialogs in Deutschland erinnert sich.

The history of the intertwined relationships woven by the Taize Community amongst Christians of Eastern European countries in the second half of the last century has not yet been written.

This book sheds new light on the religious and consequently social changes taking place in late antique Rome.

This book studies the ongoing encounter between Judaism and Christianity from the Jewish context of the New Testament to modern days.

Jews have sometimes been reluctant to claim Jesus as one of their own; Christians have often been reluctant to acknowledge the degree to which Jesus' message and mission were at home amidst, and shaped by, the Judaism(s) of the Second Temple Period.

Weihnachten verstehen: Für einen interreligiösen Dialog über das beliebteste Fest in DeutschlandOb gläubig oder nicht, modern oder konservativ, alt oder jung: Jahr für Jahr feiern die Menschen Weihnachten.

Provides insightful discussions of the exegetic and discursive process begun by the open letter A Common Word Between Us and You.

Gerechtigkeit ist konkret.

In Christentum und Islam gibt es unterschiedliche Wege, den Glauben theologisch-wissenschaftlich zu reflektieren.

In this biography, Gerald and Deborah Strober draw from original source materials and numerous interviews to detail the life and career of the esteemed Rabbi Marc Tanenbaum, a seminal 20th century figure in interfaith relations in the US and around the world.

Kinder und Jugendliche wachsen – unabhängig davon, ob sie eine unbeschwerte Kindheit genießen konnten, ob sie unbegleitet einen schweren Fluchtweg oder einen anderen massiven Bruch in ihrem Leben hinter sich haben – in vorfindlichen Kulturen auf oder sind Grenzgänger zwischen verschiedenen Kulturen.

In this groundbreaking comparative study, Matthew Bagger investigates the role of paradox in Western and Asian religious discourse.

To study the interactions between Muslims and Christians in the medieval period is to observe a history of conflict and co-existence encompassing warfare, piracy, and raiding as well as commerce, intellectual exchanges, and personal relationships that transcended religious differences.

Der Band bündelt exemplarische Zugänge zur Konfliktgeschichte der Religionen und Kulturen.

How should constitutional design respond to the opportunities and challenges raised by ethnic, linguistic, religious, and cultural differences, and do so in ways that promote democracy, social justice, peace and stability?

In einer Zeit, in der sich unterschiedliche und zuweilen widersprechende Wahrheiten nahezu täglich neu Geltung verschaffen, müssen die Wahrheits- und Geltungsansprüche des christlichen Glaubens überprüft und in einer steten Interpretation der biblischen Texte vergegenwärtigt werden.

What is church?

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Edited by two of the most prominent names in interfaith dialogue, this is an introduction to the complex relationships between Christianity and the other world faiths.

What does the term 'common good' means to thinkers of different, primarily - but not exclusively - Christian traditions.

Als Johannes Pfefferkorn im Jahr 1507 seinen sogenannten "Judenspiegel" veröffentlichte, forderte dessen antijüdische Polemik den Widerspruch Johannes Reuchlins heraus und führte schließlich zu einer heftigen Kontroverse zwischen Dominikanern und Juden, an der die Kölner Dominikaner auf Seiten Pfefferkorns regen Anteil hatten.

Palestine is often characterised, from afar, as being plagued by insurmountable difference and violent conflict along religious and ethnic lines.

Die palästinakundliche Sammlung des Greifswalder Gustaf Dalman-Institutes beherbergt unter anderem eine Bibliothek wertvoller hebräischer Drucke aus dem 16.

There is no single standard textbook that outlines the official Roman Catholic theological position in relation to other religions which then explicates this orientation theologically and phenomenologically in relation to the four main religions of the world and the flowering of new religious movements in the west.

How and why should hope play a key role in a twenty-first century democratic politics?

Muthuraj Swamy provides a fresh perspective on the world religions paradigm and 'interreligious dialogue'.

How did the world's most tolerant region become the least harmonious place on the planet?